Chinese government scientists have released research that millions of acres of Chinese agricultural land and over 12 million tons of Chinese grain are contaminated by toxic metal pollution, according to this week’s edition of …

To help close a widening deficit, Britain is planning to sell off half of its 748,000 hectares (nearly 1.85 million acres) of nationally-owned forests by 2020. Could other countries be forced to follow suit? Read more at TIME’s

Get your spacesuits ready. A study conducted by the World Wildlife Fund shows that humans’ demand on our biosphere (using resources like water and trees) has doubled since the 1960s. If we keep going at this rate, we’ll have to …

That’s the conclusion of Laura Vanderkam, who notes that there are 21 million acres of grass in the U.S. that wouldn’t exist without the aid of human labor, water supplies, and pesticides. (Via USA Today)